English - Actor | October 1, 1981 -
Even if it's a bit blunt, I really appreciate somebody being straight with you.
Rupert Friend
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I find the English flag - the cross - quite frightening; it has very bad symbolism for me. Not just football hooligans but supremacists and the BNP.
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My grandfather, who is English, was a member of a gentleman's club called the Caledonian, which you can only be a member of if you have Scottish lineage.
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I'm always interested in what we're not being shown. So if you're playing ostensibly a quote-unquote 'baddie,' what are their good sides, and vice versa.
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I've never been to war, and I would never presume to fully understand the horrors that that kind of experience can impart.
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I was asked by this British band called Kairos 4Tet to write lyrics for them. And I wrote lyrics for them. The album is called 'Everything We Hold,' and you can hear my lyrics.
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I'm a bit of a technophobe.
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I'm a dual citizen in a way. I live in the States and have a green card, so my connection to British politics is almost nonexistent.
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I'm not a big fan of people telling each other what to do, I'll say that.
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The one thing I couldn't imagine is stopping still.
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All I would say is that when I've been very down or having kind of a tough time in my life, certain films or pieces of music or books have changed that. They've taken me out of a dark place and put me into a more positive one. And I think that if we can do that for people, then it's certainly worth doing.
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I am a very sporadic watcher of television. I don't watch a lot of it.
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